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ROK Drop (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is interesting that a country that can’t afford to pick up its own trash is able to hire North Koreans to build a gigantic monument: The statue shows a muscular man in a heroic posture, outstretched arms wrapped around his wife and child. Nearly 50 North Korean workers were brought in to build it, because [...]
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OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
In an attempt to regain some measure of economic independence, defector “Kim Su Jong” (an alias) claims that North Korea is trying to curtail the degree of Chinese direct investment in, and exploitation of its mines. Foreign analysts see the barriers to North Korea getting those mines working on its own as insurmountable. [...]
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OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | yesterday
South Korea voted for and was one of 53 co-sponsors. The vote was 96 for, 19 against, with 65 abstentions: The resolution goes on to list torture, the absence of due process in law, use of the death penalty, collective punishment, strict restrictions on freedom of movement, thought, conscience, religion, opinion and expression, [...]
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USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The defense chiefs of North Korea and China reaffirmed pledges to strengthen their nations' 60-year-old alliance, North Korean ...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHINESE and North Korean defence chiefs have pledged to strengthen their military alliance, which dates back to the Korean War, during talks in Pyongyang, state media said today.
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OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
This is one of the best finds I’ve seen in a long time — prolific, funny, and full of information I hadn’t heard anywhere else. That’s all the more impressive given that blogger Michael Madden was ambitious enough to choose subject matter that most would consider droll, stultifying, opaque, and impervious to verifiable empirical [...]
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Zambia beat World-Cup-bound North Korea 4-1 in an international friendly in Lusaka
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BBC Sport (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Zambia beat World-Cup-bound North Korea 4-1 in an international friendly in Lusaka
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Looking for ISO country codes? This is now the place to come. We want to make it easier to map data and keep it consistent. Take a look at our reference guide to IDs, codes and names and see how you can help make it better • Get the data The actual Rosetta stone is a crucially important ancient Egyptian artifact instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing ....
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Bark Bark Woof Woof (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The Republicans want to make sure that only the True Believers get their backing, so they're considering instituting a little test dreamed up by Jim Bopp, the same genius who wanted to pass a resolution mandating that the RNC label the Democrats as the "Democrat Socialist Party," to see if their candidates pass muster. Here's the list of qualifications as reported by Steve Benen: (1) Smaller...
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OneFreeKorea (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The Daily NK has an interesting two-parter on the history and decline of North Korea’s front organization in Japan, here and here. Once a major source of income for Kim Il Sung’s regime, its decline under Kim Jong Il’s rule can all be attributed to (surprise!) North Korea’s nastiness and mismanagement.
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Wonkette (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The RNC is considering making all Republican politicians take a ten-question Ronald Reagan-themed purity test! According to Daily Intel, “If someone disagrees with three or more of the policies, the resolution’s supporters want to withhold party money and endorsement. The 80 percent threshold comes from a famous Reagan quote: ‘The person who agrees with you [...] North Korea - Michael...
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Sophia Sadoughi (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A tourism website has put an addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on its second annual list of the “World’s Top 10 Ugly Buildings.” VirtualTourist.com puts Michael Lee-Chin’s futuristic glass “Crystal” addition at No. 8 on the list. The website site says that while many praise the glass structure, “just as many are troubled by the incongruity to...
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N ov em ber 24, 2009 Data Show a Decline for Tigers in Russia New York Times By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ MOS COW — Amid the torrent of bad environmental news in recent years, the story of Amur tigers in Russia offered a flicker of optimism. Nearly extinct half a century ago, the tigers rebounded when the government imposed protections, and their numbers remained more or less stable for much of the last...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Seoul - The last time North Korea seized the global stage was at the 1966 World Cup finals when the Asian underdog advanced into a quarter-final clash with Portugal after stunning the world by defeating Italy. Nobody had expected the East Asian outsi...
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abdulruff | 04/06/2009
Nuclear Proliferation: An Unflinching North Korea - By Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal ****** Nuclear proliferation is being caused by literally every nuclear power in the world in one way or the other. Today North Korea and Iran are seen by USA and its allies as posing threat to them and world peace. But nuclear ambitions of these two powers are admitted by the UNSC as normal. USA has repeatedly warned against...
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